TANTRUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tantrum mean? 

• TANTRUM (noun)
  The noun TANTRUM has 1 sense:

1. a display of bad temper

  Familiarity information: TANTRUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANTRUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A display of bad temper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

conniption; fit; scene; tantrum

Context example:

he made a scene

Hypernyms ("tantrum" is a kind of...):

bad temper; ill temper (a persisting angry mood)

 Context examples 

La, no Miss, but he's had a scene with Mr. Laurie, who is in one of his tantrums about something, which vexes the old gentleman, so I dursn't go nigh him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Besides, said Miss Abbot, God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where would she go?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The researchers suggest Saturn's extra-wet interior might explain why the planet has such epic tantrums, whereas Jupiter does not.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

Mothers who suffered from stress and anxiety in the prenatal period were more likely to see their child display behavioural problems such as temper tantrums, restlessness and spitefulness.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)